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the co-matter podcast

The co-matter podcast is a series of conversations about the future of bringing people together. Hosted by Severin Matusek from co-matter, a global network exploring what makes communities thrive.

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00:46:44

Santiago Siri: Can the Internet Save Democracy?

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2019/05/07

Santiago is the founder of Democracy Earth, an open source platform for governance and community participation. A former video game developer turned activist-slash-founding member of Argentina's political party Partido de la Red, Santi takes us on a walk through NYC's central park to talk about the future of democracy. We explore the intersection between democracy and the internet to understand how technology can help make governance better - in the democratic systems of our future, as well as in

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00:40:57

Solana Larsen: How to Keep the Internet Healthy

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2019/04/23

Solana Larsen is a journalist, editor and activist currently leading the Internet Health Report: Mozilla’s open source initiative to document and explain the state of the Internet in various areas of global interest. We talked to Solana on the occasion of the Internet Health Report’s third release. Her view on the health of the Internet swings from guarded optimism to hopeful pessimism in a fascinating way. Adding to that, her journalistic background and her contribution to initiatives like Global

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00:41:01

Jyri Engeström: Investing into the Web's Social...

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2019/04/09

Jyri Engeström is a Finland-born, California-raised entrepreneur who has built online social networks since the dawn of the web 2.0 era. With Yes VC, the early-stage venture fund he started together with his partner Caterina Fake, Jyri now invests in the next generation of the web’s social infrastructure. In our call with Jyri, we talk about him growing up in the Silicon Valley of the 90s, the roots of the social web, communities as essential building blocks of society, the role of venture capital

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00:33:49

The Life and Times of Harper Reed

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2019/03/25

Harper Reed is an American technologist, known for being the CTO behind Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, for his involvement in pioneering online crowdsourcing company Threadless, his hairstyle, and many other weird and wonderful projects he gets involved in. Severin met Harper at MIT’s media lab in Berlin, in August last year. Being a fan of Harper’s work for many years, he took the opportunity to ask him about what Harper calls his life waves: periods in his career when he quit everything and

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00:34:33

Claire L. Evans: The Women Who Built the Internet

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2019/03/14

Claire L. Evans is a LA-based writer, musician and the author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. She’s also one of the most eloquent, articulate and witty people we’ve met to reflect on the state of the Internet today. In our talk, we covered how Claire met the women who built the internet, how they translated traditional communication formats to the digital world, and what we can learn from early virtual communities about power dynamics, politics and gender bias

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00:34:27

Khalid Albaih: How We Lost the Internet

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2018/12/17

Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist and social media activist. Using the Internet as a way of publishing uncensored drawings since 2006, Khalid has been one of the leading visual artists of the Arab Spring and has witnessed first hand how social media evolved - from a tool to fight the establishment to eventually becoming the establishment itself. In our conversation, we talk about how social media changed since Khalid got started, how politics got involved and the chances for the Internet to

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00:30:11

Sarah Clark: The Secret Behind Rapha's Success

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2018/11/13

Sarah Clark is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rapha, the British cycling brand known and loved for celebrating cycling as a sport and culture. Rapha is a prime example of how a brand can build an authentic community around a clear purpose: it runs its own cycling club with thousands of members, operates 22 clubhouses around the world, organizes weekly rides that anyone can join, produces movies, has a beautiful print magazine and a ton of other projects that help people discover their passion for

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00:45:27

Claire Wasserman: How Ladies Get Paid Helps Women...

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2018/08/30

Claire is the founder of Ladies Get Paid, an organization and global community that helps women rise up at work. Since its launch in 2016, Ladies Get Paid has grown to 30,000 members in more than 60 countries. We talk about how it all got started: how Ladies Get Paid grew from a meetup in a tiny New York apartment to a global movement, how Claire attached a business model to it, her advice for community founders and her vision for growing Ladies Get Paid in the

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00:45:36

Charles Adler: What I Learned from Building Kickstarter

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2018/07/12

Charles Adler is a designer, entrepreneur and technologist most well known for being the co-founder and former Head of Design of Kickstarter; the crowdfunding platform that forever changed how creativity gets funded. Charles then founded Lost Arts, a 25,000 sqf workspace in Chicago, and travels the world to speak about social entrepreneurship, technology and creativity. We talk about his experience in building Kickstarter, how he designs community at Lost Arts, the difference in building a global

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00:37:37

Nelly Ben Hayoun: How to Design Experiences

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2018/05/22

Nelly Ben Hayoun is a designer of experiences. Sometimes called the "Willy Wonka of Design and Science" or “Part designer, part performance artist, part space traveller”, Nelly and her team are known for transcending boundaries. They create orchestras together with NASA space scientists, put dark energy in your kitchen sink or create places such as The University of the Underground, Nelly’s latest venture that teaches critical thinking, unconventional research and social dreaming to post-graduate

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00:29:21

Rafe Offer: How Sofar Sounds Turned into a Global...

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2018/04/26

Rafe Offer is the co-founder & CEO of Sofar Sounds, a global movement that brings people together over live music in an intimate setting. Based out of London, Sofar was launched in 2009 and now stages concerts in 398 cities worldwide. In our conversation we talk about the humble beginnings of Sofar, the challenges of growing it as a non-technical team, leadership, monetization, their recent funding by Sir Richard Branson and Rafe's vision for Sofar's future.

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00:55:28

Linda Liukas: How I Became a Children's Book Author...

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2018/01/24

Linda Liukas is a children’s book author and the creator of Hello Ruby, a book that teaches children about the whimsical world of computers, technology and coding. Hello Ruby was the first children’s book that raised $380,000 on Kickstarter and is published in over 24 languages today. In our conversation, we talk about how Linda's early adventures on the Internet have shaped her creativity, how she built Rails Girls into a global movement that teaches women how to code, the process of funding a

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00:47:55

Justin Gignac: Building the World’s Most Obsessively...

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2017/12/17

Justin Gignac is the founder of Working Not Working, a marketplace that connects companies with the universe’s most creative creatives. Founded in 2012 by Justin and his friend Adam Tompkins in New York City, the platform now includes over 10.000 members that work together with over 2000 of the world's best companies such as Apple, The New York Times, Airbnb and Wieden+Kennedy. In our interview, Justin shares what it takes to build a community like Working Not Working; and how he wants to grow it

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00:43:16

Annamaria Olsson: Building Bridges Between Refugees...

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2017/11/20

Annamaria Olsson is the founder of Give Something Back to Berlin; an award-winning project that connects refugees and migrants from all backgrounds through knowledge sharing. What started with a Facebook post in 2012 has helped thousands of newly arrived Berliners integrate in society, make friends and learn the language. In our interview, Annamaria shares the story on how it all got started and the learnings she made from building this unique community over the past 5 years.

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00:42:11

Simon Caspersen: How IKEA’s Research Lab SPACE10...

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2017/10/25

Simon is one of the founding members and Director of Communications at SPACE10 - a future living lab on a mission to design a better and more sustainable way of living. With projects ranging from vertical farming to the future of meatballs, the team at the Copenhagen-based research lab works with a global network of collaborators to not only research what the future brings, but also prototype it. The results are then open-sourced and available to anyone. In our conversation we talk about how

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00:43:56

Martin Jordan and Kara Kane: How the UK Designs...

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2017/10/19

Martin and Kara are part of the team of Government Digital Services; the digital unit of the UK Government that's widely recognized to set standards for the way citizens interact with government online. In this conversation Severin sat down with Martin and Kara at The Whitechapel Building in London to talk about what it means to build better services for citizens, how GDS works like a startup within the government and how they share knowledge and build community with civil servants across the

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01:01:33

Jerry Michalski on the Power of Trust in Today's Economy

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2017/10/12

Considered one of the shapers of the dot-com era, Jerry Michalski observes, analyzes and consults on technology trends since the early 1990s. Severin and Jerry talk about the role of trust and relationships in today's economy, the dynamics behind platforms such as Kickstarter, Airbnb, Wikipedia and Uber, the evil genius of Donald Trump and many other things.

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00:29:47

Damian Bradfield: How did WeTransfer Become a...

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2017/08/06

The guest on this show is Damian Bradfield, president and CMO of WeTransfer. With 40 million active users and 1 billion files transferred every month, WeTransfer is not only an incredibly successful file-sharing service but also a much-loved platform that supports and inspires creatives around the world. Damian joined WeTransfer in 2010 along co-founders Nalden and Bas Beerens. I met him shortly after his talk at this year's Tech Open Air and caught him for a conversation on company values, trust

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00:47:49

Niko Woischnik: How did Tech Open Air Become Europe's...

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2017/07/11

In our first episode we talk to Niko Woischnik, the founder of Tech Open Air. Tech Open Air is Europe's biggest interdisciplinary tech conference that brings more than 20.000 people to Berlin this year. In this conversation, Niko and Severin talk about how it all started with a crowdfunding campaign, why community and collaboration lie at the core of Tech Open Air and where the team is taking it in the future.

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